Improvement in table-cutlery



J. B. H, LEONARD. TABLE *cuwLEn-Y.

-19 Patented my 1s. 1876- N-PETERS, FHOTO LITHOGRAPNEL WASHINGTON. D C.

' and represent, ill- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE...

JOHN B. LEONARD, OF BRIDGEPOBT, CONNECTICUT, ASS IGNOR TO THE FRARY CUTLERY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROV EMENT IN TABLE-CUTLERV.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent- No. 179,927, dated July 18,1876; application filed July 1, 1876.

the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be'afull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said diawings constitute part of this specification,

Figure 1, a side view, and in Fig. 2 an edge view.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of the tang of table-cutlery,

with special reference to improvement on the tang invented by me, and for which I filed an application for Letters Patent on the 9th day of March, 1876, which application has been allowed. in that invention the tang was forged on the blade, and flat upon two sides, with a screw-thread struck or out upon the edges, by means of which it could be screwed into the handle.

The object of this invention is to provide the blade with a screw-tang without the necessity of forging and then cutting the thread; and it consists in attaching a previously formed nicked screw to the heel of the blade, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the blade of a common table knife; but it will be understood that this is for'illustration only, as it may be a fork, it desirable. B is the screw-tang, which is preferably a common wood-screw, or made similarly with a nick, a, in the headd. Into this nick a the heel of the bladeis fitted and brazed, or

similarly secured, so as to become, practically,

one with the screw.

As this attachment is very cheaply and quickly made, it follows that a practical screwtang is produced at little, it any, more cost JOHN B. H. LEONARD.

Witnesses:

F. W. HURD, B. F. SHELDON. 

